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Moreover, something is or seems, 
That teaches me with mystic gleams, 

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams, 

Of something felt, like something here, 

Of something done, I know not where, 
Such as no language may declare. 

To all who have a desire for a life of purity in mind and 
life in the human soul; to all who desire to live above the 
animal; to all who have found their human soul and under- 
stand that the " still, small voice" is the Lord of their being — 
I come to such with these few words of help. Thought is the 
creative force of the world. Between the two pillars of 
Thought and Understanding you find the doorway to the I am 
of the world. 

M. L. M. 



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In this day and age of humanity the cry goes up from 
untold numbers : How are we to live? How can we 
sustain life ? Where shall we learn the lesson of 
patience and charity for the many evils that exist? 
The struggle of humanity has become the nightmare 
of our sleep and the curse of our waking hours. Un- 
less we understand the law, we shall go mad. H 
Karmic Law is the answer to the suffering, then and 
only then are we answered. How far the law of 
Karma can enter into the law of being should be our 
pleasure to seek in every heart for our answer. If I 
offend one, then let me bear the penalty. If I find an 
answer to my question, then make me most generous 
with those who are following in the path I have 
passed with painful steps. Can I reach a hungry 
heart by these few words, then do I feel most grate- 



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ful. If I am able to guide one soul into light, then 
may I find pleasure even in shadow. 

The Law of Life seems to be, to live right is to 
think right. First let us understand that evolution 
of spirit and matter is the first step; that we have 
lived a million times before this life is no new doc- 
trine; that every life is one step taken, one experi- 
ence that the human soul needs for its growth; that 
thought is a garment we weave for a covering for this 
soul; that food is the loom, and the purity of our 
lives is the shuttle that weaves rapidly this web. To 
be free from animal appetites, then live beyond the 
animal soul. To do this means to put aside all desire 
for flesh for food, and even cooked food gives unnat- 
ural thirst. We should live on fruit and soon as 
possible make our living simply sun-cooked food. 
Witness the struggle of the poor to provide food, 
when flour is ruled in price by the howling demons of 
the Board of Trade. Can any human being sit in the 
gallery and hear their yells and not compare them to 
the spirits of evil? You listen and then turn away 
and cry out. My God! how long shall we suffer this? 
From the languid, satisfied air of plenty and luxury 
let the spirit's eye rest upon haggard want and pitiful 
purity looking from out the eyes of childhood. The 



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pleading face, full of questioning the why of all this, 
chills my heart's warmth and numbs my very soul, 
unless I can rise in my strength t ohelp them bear the 
penalty and lift their eyelids from the mental sleep 
of a thousand lives. Could the diamond be known as 
a frozen tear of an angel whose pitying eye had looked 
into the soul's misery, and while little children looked 
up for help the eye of the Over Soul had gathered the 
tears and dropped them to earth, they had glistened 
long in the heaving bosom of earth, and now they 
throw back reflections of the coloring given by pain. 
Every thought or deed, good or bad, produces a cor- 
responding effect in the unseen world. Swedenborg, 
the seer, has truly said, " Evil punishes itself." Men- 
tal healing teaches only a part of what the ancient 
wisdom teaches, namely, if we live in the animal soul 
subject to its desires and penalties that follow, that 
come in the form of disease and discontent, we shall 
never be happy, but if we rise out of the animal and 
into the human soul, we become free from these 
desires and penalties and acquire divine power to 
heal ourselves and others. It has been stated that 
we can heal and keep healed without any reference 
to what we eat, but this is a fallacy which those who 
have not learned will learn. 



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"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart throbs. 

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the 
best." 

Enter into thy closet (within thy physical senses), 
and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father 
(thy divine soul) which is in secret (above thy human 
soul, in thy inmost), and thy Father (or divine soul), 
which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. 

Let your prayer be to the powers above you to 
crush out all desire for flesh for food. Can a more 
repulsive sight be found for spiritual eyes than a 
table laden with flesh of fowl and beast, where being 
dragged to the slaughter-house, have yielded their 
life to satisfy man's appetite for blood? Think you 
that little children eating such food, and parents 
also can be free from the animal desires and passions 
that possessed the animal just eaten? 

- J-- " Kill not for pity's sake and lest ye slay 

^ Ai ^ The meanest thing upon its upward way." 

^/v/yy 2i Light of Asia. 

-^ o u fji^ke not away the life you cannot give, 
' * ^k)^*^^ 'V For all things have an equal right to live. 

^'To say that animals are not immortal shows the 
greatest ignorance; to say they have no soul, and that 



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God teaches so, is lunacy. The sages of antiquity' and 
the sages of today are unanimous to the contrary. 
All that lives has a soul. True, not a soul of equal 
rank, for there are vegetable souls, animal souls, 
human, spiritual and divine souls, and those strong 
souls that have reached Divinity or Christhood and 
have acquired a memory of their past incarnations, 
hnow and affirm that the Ego, the self, of every entity 
descends from the Absolute, and if not too weak 
ascends to it again through the one path that leads 
through the seven kingdoms of nature, the mineral, 
the vegetable, the animal, the human, and the re- 
maining three kingdoms, practically known only to 
the Christs and to those to whom in their good 
pleasure they reveal them." Hence all life is sacred. 
"Thou Shalt not kill." 

Jesus reached Christhood, and hence he knew the 
past incarnations of those with whom he came in 
contact and foretold his own future incarnation, as 
Job had foretold his ages before. 

Do not suppose this progression of the soul through 
innumerable incarnations to be a new doctrine. It 
was taught by Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Epamarchus, 
Epedocles, Cebes, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, Cicero, 
Hippocrates, Galen, Plotium, Jambliches, Synesius, 



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Origen, Marsilius, Ticinus, Cardan and Aristotle, and 
in later days Sir Henry Yane, Saint Martin, Joseph 
Glaswil, Kant, Schelling, Julien Muller, Van Helmont, 
the younger Jean Ernest Reynaud, Bulwer Lytton, 
Robert Southey, Herder, Lessing, Schubert and Sich- 
tenberg favored it, not to speak of the ancient 
Italians, the Celtic Druids, the Scythians, and the 
millions of souls who live and die in this knowledge 
and millions before the Christian era. 

Understand, then, that your mind is that amount 
of thought substance which has come together during 
countless ages and after using many physical bodies. 
The mind is a magnet. It has the power, first, of 
attracting thought, and, next, of sending that thought 
out again. You do not of yourself make your thought; 
you only receive and feel it as it comes to you. That 
kind of thought you most charge that magnet with, 
or open to receive it, will attract most of that kind 
to you. If, then, you keep most in mind the thought 
of determhiation, hope, cheerfulness, fofxe, stre^igth, jus- 
tice, gentleness or order, you will receive more and 
more of such thought element. The more you set 
the magnet in this direction, the stronger it grows to 
attract these elements. Whatever thought you think 
or receive, that you send out again to act on others 



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for good or evil. "As a man thinketh, so is he." 
Your thought at every moment is attracting to you 
of its kind, the thought of others whose bodies you 
may never have seen, the people you are in the future 
to meet, who may help or damage you in your for- 
tunes, accordingly as your mind has been for good or 
ill. That thought attraction tends to bring you to- 
gether in the body. It will surely bring you together 
in some form of existence, either in this or a future 
time. When determined thought meets determined 
thought and unites in a similar purpose, a double 
power for success comes of such union. Whatever you 
think, that thought goes out and meets and mingles 
with the same element in thought of others; so it 
attracts you to them, your partners in misery or hap- 
piness, sickness or health; so you benefit yourself and 
others with wholesome thought or injure your for- 
tunes and others also by evil thinking. Remember, 
ahvays, that thought attracts thought of like kind. 
If you have a special aim in view, based on right and 
justice, just so long are you moving in this way the 
strongest silent power of your thought and the 
element of power in attracting to you the person you 
need to co-operate with. If you wish to gain by 
deceit and craft, you can do so; you will attract by 



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the same law and method deceitful and dishonest 
thought in advance of its body; you will then work 
with dishonest thought in the body. Dishonest 
minds herd together through a natural law. The 
dishonest are sure to injure each other at last in 
some wa)^ A thought, be it good or bad, is a con- 
struction of unseen element as real as a tree or a 
flower. It may shed peace and content or become a 
whirlwind of destruction. Every thought of yours, 
silent or spoken, has a literal value. You can use 
your thought to bring you good or ill, and will surely 
bring you in contact with people who will either 
bring you success or failure. Whatever plan or 
scheme of business you fix your mind upon in the 
determination to succeed, it begins as a thought con- 
struction of unseen element to draw aiding forces to 
you. Do not waste your power in looking for such 
aiding forces with your body ; let silent resolve in 
mind do the work. It will do it if you hold to this 
frame of mind. It is no new power, though possibly 
new to most of us. Your body is only the instrument 
of the mind or spirit; now, let the best thoughts 
control this instrument, then you will live in con- 
tinual harmony, and all good will come to you, 
" With all you get, get wisdom, and all other things 



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shall be added unto you." The power of the mind 
works while we sleep. As our physical condition, 
with most of us, causes the mind to work for ben- 
efit .or our injury, I believe the food, which we eat to 
sustain life, gives thought, or puts our mental ma- 
chinery in condition to accept the intelligent and 
pure universal thought of the world ; as we live only 
as high as we think, let us ask what food we should 
eat to make us fit for the purest thought. 

A rather keen missionary that (Father de Smet) 
who says, ''Alas, how helpless theology against a diet 
of bull beef." 

The '' Successors" of the disciples of the Nazarene 
Christ have for centuries tried to establish a life 
according to his teachings, upon a foundation of beef, 
pork and alcohol. With what success witnesseth the 
inquisition, burnt witches, the wars, the standing 
army, the iron-clad navies, the crippled soldier, the 
wasted fields, the widows, the orphans, the national 
debts and the ever contending sects. Swedenborg, 
the prophet of the New Jerusalem, taught that when 
man became as fierce as a wild beast and fiercer, he 
began to kill and to eat the killed. He forgot to tell 
his followers that beef, pork, alcohol and tobacco 
make an unsteady foundation for a New Jerusalem. 
All these things inflame the animal in man. 



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Pure, living food is essential to him that would 
make progress in the path of life, because ytature can 
form and build a fit abode for the soul in which, 
untrammeled by filth, lust and disease, development 
sure and rapid may go on. 

Two-thirds of diseases prevalent are curable by 
abstinence from food of animal origin and by a tem- 
perate use of sun-cooked food, vegetables, grain and 
fruit. "If we could solve the problem of diet, it 
would amount to the re-discovery of Paradise." 

That there is a difference between a body made 
from rotting flesh and lifeless vegetables (or cooked) 
and a body made from living fruit and vegetables 
(sun-cooked), photography demonstrates, for in the 
negative of a fruit-eater appear slight punctures, by 
the impurities thrown to the surface of the skin, 
whereas that of a flesh-eater appears full of large 
blotches, the skin of a fruit-eater being almost free 
from impurities. 

I know of a Christ in the flesh, a Christy I tell 
thee (meaning one who has attained the Divine 
Wisdom), who can duplicate every *' miracle " of the 
Nazarene Christ, do more too ; a Christ because he 
has '^overcome the world," whose will is so strong, 
whose intellect is so great, that in comparison the 
will and intellect of thy Huxleys, Mills, Spencers and 



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Darwins are mere babes in swaddling clothes, and he 
doth warn us against gluttony and flesh-eating. 

Animal food, when taken by a fruit-eater, causes 
a loss of self-control and will power. I do not state 
that scraggy people, hysterical and dyspeptic, have a 
strong will, or that every greasy Falstaff is weak- 
minded, for I make a distinction between the will of 
the animal soul (Nephesh-Psyche) and the will of the 
human soul (Ruach-Logos). 

Bonaparte had a strong animal will and con- 
quered animals; Siddartha had a strong human will 
and conquered self. 

As stated, inasmuch as flesh is dead substance, it 
irritates, stimulates and creates thirst and unnatural 
hunger. 

The flesh-eater is a slave, the true vegetarian a 
lord. I love freedom, freedom from lust, hate, anger, 
and desire, the passions that torment men; I love 
purity. To have to eat food, especially bread, into 
which dirty, diseased cooks have put their visible and 
invisible dirtiness and disease, is that freedom ? 

I love clean, sun-cooked food, a healthy body, a 
pure mind and a spotless soul. May I obtain it, may 
all women and men obtain it! Bear constantly in 
mind that the Edenic life means more than mere 
abstinence from cruelty and foul flesh. It means 



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chastity, temperance, peace, unselfishness and aspira- 
tion in and a life in the human soul. Should you 
fail, hlame your self ^ your lust and feeble will. The 
question before you is this, " Shall I be lord, or 
slave?" 

It is desirable to have a body that may, as the 
mystic said, be a fit temple for the Holy Ghost (the 
higher self), and you will begin to dislike the foul air 
of the city and its unpleasant admixtures; you will 
lose unnecessary and unhealthy fat ; you will long 
for the pure air of the mountains ; you lose all 
desire for distinguishing yourself on the battlefield, 
in the prize-ring, and at the horse-race; you do not 
desire to stab, to shoot or mutilate fathers and sons 
of women you have never seen; you will let the 
politicians commit their own robberies and murders ; 
the temperature of your blood becomes normal; your 
hands, hitherto hot and clammy, become cool and 
clean; you do not require drinks, and saloons and 
breweries become a nuisance to you; you begin to 
dislike tobacco; your carnality abates; you can look 
upon a woman without committing adultery in your 
heart; you become disinclined to fill our overcrowded 
cities with beings whose future existence will neces- 
sitate fierce, inhuman struggle, disease and crime, 
sickly, demonish looking beings, future tramps, pros- 



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titutes, libertines, usurers, politicians, libel ers, stock- 
gamblers, wife-beaters and monopolists. Byron says: 

" To give birth to those 
Who cau but suffer many years and die, 
Methinks is merely propagating death 
And multiplying murder." 

If you are scrofulous, consumptive, rheumatic and 
dyspeptic; if you are afflicted with Bright's disease, 
or a tendency to epilepsy or insanity; if your body is 
full of boils and sores, by pure air, exercise, bathing 
and fasting and sun-cooked food, cure yourself. 

Our object is health, purity, freedom, a life in the 
human soul. We have arrived at a link in the 
evolutionary chain which turns upwards. We have 
hitherto been on a level with the beasts. Have we 
learned to eat and drink that we might be plagued 
with all diseases of the flesh? Have we learned to 
do business within the so-called legal bounds that we 
might overreach one another ? Have we learned 
politeness and good manners that we may use the 
same as a covering for our deceit ? Have we learned 
to sanctify marriage that we might, behind a show 
of holiness, live in unbridled lust ? Have we learned 
to sing praises to a God that we have created, who 
is always on the side of the heaviest artillery ? 

But we are tired of this madness; of this insatiate, 
furious rush after unnecessary and unholy food: gold, 



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flesh and dominion; tired of this soul starvation; we 
are tired of a life in the mere animal soul; we have 
begun to sigh for a life in the Human Soul. Yes, in 
spite of the bitter, stormy antagonism of our appe- 
tites, passions, and even our so-called friends, we 
have actually started in search of this soul. "When 
you have found your soul you know the Lord (the 
Lord or divine ruler of your being), or that still, small 
voice that lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world." Friends, be not detained by those who pro- 
cess to be rulers or servants by the grace of God. Do 
not loiter in sanitary institutions, halls of justice, hut 
pass on. Make thyself a new body of pure sun- 
cooked food, pure air, pure water; pure thoughts will 
soon be the ruler of your being. Destroy that animal 
self by 71071-gratification of its desires and by passion- 
less contemplation of the illusive and ever- changing 
things about you. For with Abijile, an fArabian 
alchemist, " I admonish if that thou seekest thou 
findest not tvithin thee, thou wilt never find it with- 
out thee." 

In conclusion: The sun-cooked food is the true 
and only basis of economy ^ vitality, temperance, healthy 
purity, mercy, chastity, peace, elevation of mind, soul 
groivth and blessed immortality 

What more do you need? 

Fraternally, 

M. L. M. 



While mankind remained in a state of innocence, 
there is every reason to believe that their only food 
was the produce of the vegetable kingdom. — Sir 
Everard Homes. 

Every element, whether mineral or organic, 
which is required for nutrition, is found in the 
vegetable kingdom. — Dr. Edward Smith. 

The vegetable-eater, pure and simple, can extract 
from his food all the principles for growth and sup- 
port of the body, as well as production of heat and 
force, if he selects those that contain the essential 
elements. — Sir Hefwy Thoynpson. 



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